Learn the successful strategies behind hedge fund investing
Hedge funds and hedge fund trading strategies have long been popular in the financial community because of their flexibility, aggressiveness, and creativity. Trade Like a Hedge Fund capitalizes on this phenomenon and builds on it by bringing fresh and practical ideas to the trading table. This book shares 20 uncorrelated trading strategies and techniques that will enable readers to trade and invest like never before. With detailed examples and up-to-the-minute trading advice, Trade Like a Hedge Fund is a unique book that will help readers increase the value of their portfolios, while decreasing risk.
James Altucher (New York, NY) is a partner at Subway Capital, a hedge fund focused on special arbitrage situations, and short-term statistically based strategies. Previously, he was a partner with technology venture capital firm 212 Ventures and was CEO and founder of Vaultus, a wireless and software company.
Author(s): James Altucher
Series: Wiley Trading
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2004
Language: English
Commentary: 58795
Pages: 238
Trade Like a Hedge Fund......Page 3
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
TECHNIQUE 1 The Bread and Butter Trade—Playing Gaps......Page 15
TECHNIQUE 2 How to Play the QQ Q-SPY Spread Using Unilateral Pairs Trading......Page 37
TECHNIQUE 3 Buying Bankruptcies......Page 63
TECHNIQUE 4 Using the TICK......Page 69
TECHNIQUE 5 Playing the Bands......Page 81
TECHNIQUE 6 Stocks Less Than $5......Page 91
TECHNIQUE 7 The Slow Turtle......Page 97
TECHNIQUE 8 The QQQ Crash System......Page 111
TECHNIQUE 9 The Relative Fed Model (and Other Fun Things You Can Do with Yields)......Page 125
TECHNIQUE 10 Deletions from the Indexes......Page 133
TECHNIQUE 11 Everything You Wanted to Know About the 200-Day Moving Average but Were Afraid to Ask......Page 147
TECHNIQUE 12 End of Quarter, End of Month, Outside Month......Page 155
TECHNIQUE 13 Ten Percent Down—Panic 101......Page 161
TECHNIQUE 14 Taking Advantage of Option Expiration Day......Page 169
TECHNIQUE 15 Extreme Convertible Arbitrage......Page 177
TECHNIQUE 16 Intraday Bollinger Bands......Page 183
TECHNIQUE 17 All Good Things Come in Fours (“4” Is a Magic Number)......Page 193
TECHNIQUE 18 The Wednesday Reversal......Page 203
TECHNIQUE 19 What Does Not Work?......Page 219
TECHNIQUE 20 Reading List......Page 225
Index......Page 235
